Disney: Disney Family Museum Online Exhibits Celebrates Monorails The August / September 2004 exhibits of the Walt Disney Family's online museum are inspired...
There is no "bid limit", the contracts can (and most certainly will) bid exactly what it costs to build the system and make some sort of profit. Contractors...
And if Cascadia wants to get the contract they will offer a proposal that MEETS the requirements and CAN be built within budget. To do otherwise would just...
Exactly. No legitimate for-profit "business" would WANT a contract that they know in advance they will lose money on. They will bid what they estimate the...
The point missed is the fact that Cascadia more that likely proposed a bid within SMPs budget so the project could move forward. _____ From: greenlaker98103...
Which leads us back to the high probability that the bid meets spec and budget, and the SMP and Cascadia will be negotiating the design details, not whether it...
One would hope price is part of the negotiations. Maybe it hasn't come up because most us us think it should go without saying. _____ From: Chad Maglaque...
I'm sure they will, and I'd love for it to come in at 1 billion even, but my guess is that it will come in remarkably close to the maximum amount allowed once...
I only ask cause most folks here and elsewhere appear to have been taking comfort in the 1.5B cap also, folks should be a aware that there are potentially a...
Regarding when the bid information will be made available to the public, the "Ask Lars" section of the SMP website provides the answer that appears at the end...
Weird. This would be the first time I've heard of tires falling off a monorail besides the old 1962 in Seattle. I'm starting to wonder if the time for...
Sorry; I correct myself: Tires also fell off during testing of the Monorail in Malaysia also. ... off a monorail besides the old 1962 in Seattle. I'm starting...
... That's not always true. Depending on the circumstances and the size of the firm, some firms will bid on projects or deliberately lose money on products...
... ways ... yep, pro sports teams do it all the time, hence the M's diffculty in trading Griffey (for a while) because no one wanted to assume all those...
Tires, driveshafts, nuts and bolts, thrown tread, yadda, yadda yadda. And the SMP realy wants to send the GL directly over the heads of all those people down...
Just a friendly reminder to all that a group member's alleged employer is irrelevant to the discussions on this group. Michael 8-) ... "greenlaker98103" ... ...
We need more monorails built around the world so the "novelty" of it all wears off. I'm tired about hearing every time a bolt is loose, a tire falls off, or a...
the fact is that rail and trucks have over a hundred years of history and design improvements, and many, many billions (perhaps trillions?) of passenger miles...
It is a lot simpler than that – when things fall "out of the sky" it is very dramatic and it will always get a lot of press. Just look at the press that...
I thought we used the term "wheels falling off" figuratively, now it is literal! A friend of mine's ex-wife's car was badly damaged by Monorail debris....
yep agreed, however SkyTrain is prone to derail (not terribly but it obviously happens as it did a while back at JFK. it's also an enormous guidway structure...
[of course suspended monorails catch their own debris, don't derail, have no/less walkway issue, fire is kept up and away from passengers, require less bulky...
Derailing at the speeds typical of urban transit systems such as Skytrain is rarely a safety issue. The 4 to 6 inch drop onto roadbed ballast just isn't that...
I like keeping it on the tracks better - it's OK, I just do I also don't pass off fires, emegency egress, falling parts or tires as some monorailers are prone...
Well... I didn't say I was surprised or expected it to stop. Just that I find media coverage annoying. I actually think your airplane analogy is closer to my ...
at risk of annoying the moderator (at minimum), I would respectfully disagree. If someone was employed by ST now/former, or SMP, or Metro, or SDOT, WSDOT,...
... history and ... are ... and as a ... bad, or ... I dunno if I completely agree with that - Wuppertal has been around for over 100 years, the Disney systems...
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